Toy savings bank



L. MARX TOY SAVINGS BANK Filed Oct. 19. 1922 A TTORNE V6 Patented Apr. 7, 1925.

vPATENT OFFICE..

' LOUIS Manx, o'r NEW YORK, N. Y.

Applicati TOY savmes BANK.

on -fi1ed October Be it known that I, Louis MARK,

and resident of New' of New York and of the United States, York city, in the county State of New new and useful mprovement ings Banks, of which the f specification.

This invention relates to a a citizen York, have 'invented certain s in Toy Savollowing` is a combined toy and savings bank, and more particularly to a toy bank an incentive for sav'ing;

and

for children designed to supply has special reference to the provision of a toy savings bank in which amusement is offered as the stiinulus to the creation of habits of thrift.

A primo desideratuin of my present 'in- 'ention comprehends the provision of an ainusen'ient bank constructed and designed so that the insertion or depositingl by a child of a coin in the bank receptacle will set an ainuseinent device into activity. It is a well known fact that children keenly enjoy the act of depositing coins in slots or chutes, and experience a profound sense of delight yin lwitn'essing` the inot ions of an automaton set into action thereby, By niy aresent nvention 1 oro ;ose

toV nt-ilize and take advantage of these elemental attractions of the coin slot and action,

which are of such absorbing the mechanical interest to children, to create or stiniula'teian interest or incentive in saving and thri'ft, a principal object of my invention co1nprisin the provision of a 'child7s Vbank in which an annisement device, such as ainechanical toy,

' is set into activity by the act money in the bank receptaole.

It is a fnrther principal present invention to provide bank of simple construction annisemen-t device is norinally action, and in which of depositing` object of my an amuseinent in which the looked against theJ depositing of a coin in the bank receptacle sets the ainusementdevice into activity for for the rendition of solne act a dancing` or the device is autoance, as for example, ging act, after which a given time or perform- 11sniatical'ly relocked, necessitating the. insertion of another coin if an a dditional performance is desired, ;the whole cooperating to produce an inexpenslve c'hildis coin-operated mechanical bank.

To the accomplishment of and such other appear, my invention consis the foregoing objects as may hereinafter ts in the cle- E9, 1922. Serial No. 595,552.

inents and their relation one to the other, as hereinafter particularly described and sought .to be defined in the Vclaims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings which show a preferred einbodi-inent of my invention and in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view ainusement bank,

Fig. 2 is a front cross-sectional view thereof, with parts removed,

Fig. 3 is a top plan view thereof with parts removed and other parts shown in section,

Fig. a is a view taken in cross-section on the line let, Fig. 3, and

Fig. 5 is a view of a detail.

Referring now more in detail to the `drawings, in which I have exemplified a preferred embodiinen-t of 'my iiivention, vthe aniusement bank comprises the savings receptacle A adapted for receiving coin eposits, and an ainusenient device such as the figure B associated therewith in such manner that when a coin is deposited 'in the savof my ings receptacle A the figure B is set in moreino-vable cover 11, the said cover forining a platform or stage for the figure B, and being provided with a coin chute or slot 1-2, and the body 10 being snbdivided by a partition 18 into a compartment 1a foi' receivint;` coins deposited through the coin slot 12, and a oompartment 15 for housing the operative inechanisin for the jfigu're B as will be described hereinafter.

The dancing iigure B coinprises'a body '16 provided with the mova-b'le arins 17 and the loosely joint'ed lower limbs 18 operati'vely supported on a rod 19, and so inovably related to the platform 11 that when the figure is rec'iproca'ted with an ascending` or descending motion and rota-ted about the piatform 11, the joints of the lower limbs are broken and the moveinent of the body and arms synchronized therewith to produce a 'dancing or j `ing act.

For effectuatfing the desired rec'iprocating and rotating motion of the figure B and the rod 19, there is provided a slide rod 20 inounted for slidable inotion in the spaced bracket supports 21 and', the said slide rod carrying` a i'otor 03 provided with a plurality of vanes or blades delining the radial slots Cooperating with the rotor 23, I provide an actuating disk including a plur'ality of radially arranged ingers 26, each of the said lingers being forwardly bent as clearly shown iii Fi 3 of the drawings, so that upon rotation of the actuating disk 25 the lingers will successively engage the rotor 23 to impart reciprocating motion to th-e same and will successively ride in the radial slots 24 to .impart rotative motion to the rotor.

For Operating the actuating` disk 25, the said disk is fixed on a shaft 2*.7 journalled in a rear suppoi'ting plate and in a braci:- et 29, the said shaft lixedly carrying a pini on nreshing wth a drive gear 30', fixed to a drum 31, the latt'er being loosely rotatable on a. shaft 32 journalled in the front of the rcceptacle 10 and in the rear supporting plate 28. The drum 31 comprises a motor drum on which is wound the spring motor 33, one end of which is anchorcd to th-e drum as at 34, the other' end of said spring being anchored to a ratchet wheel 35 freely rotatable on the drum 31, the said ratchet wheel being' fixed to the. shaft 32. Coopera-ting with the ratchet wheel 35, there is provided a spring checking pawl 36 which cooperates With the ratchet wheel to permit rotation of the latter in only one direction, the cooperation being such that upon rotation of a winding key 37 yfixed to the shaft 32, the spring motoi` 33 will be energized or ivound for effecting actuation of the irotor 23 and the dancing` figure operated thercby.

For braking the action of the motor so as to permit the same to be Wound and so as to norimally lock the same against action, I provide a braking mechanism releasable by the depositing of a coin in the bank receptacle and automatically resettable so that after the dancing' act has been per'- formed. the further depositing of a coin will be necessitated Vbefore an additional performance can be rendered. This hrakingI mechanism in the preferred construction includes the provision of a train of gears operated by the motor With a checking olement normally engaging the teeth of one of the gears, the construction being such that when the checking element is released and the same disengaged from the gear, the momentum imparted to the gear by the motor will maintain the checking element out of braking action until the activity of the gear is 'dec'reased by the deenergization of the motor, reengagement and resetting of the brake then taking place. To these ends, provide the gear train including the three combined gears and pinions 38, 30 and 40, the gear and pinions 38 and 4-0 being loosely mounted on a shaft 41, and the gear and pinion 39 being loosely mounted on the .shaft 27, the said gear train being driven from a gear 42 which may be formed integral with the driven pinion 30; Cooperating with the teeth of the gear pinion 40, I provide the checking element which preferably comprises a lever 43, the said lever including a coin actuated arm 44 arranged below the slot or chute 12, a hub 45 oscilljatable in a bearing 46 formed in the pal'- tition 13, and an arm 37 provided with a Wei'ghted :[inger 48 arranged to 'enga-ge the teeth of the gear 40, the construction being such that the lever 43 is normally biased into position for engaging the said gear. VVith this construction, .it will be seen that under normal conditions with the c'hecking element 43 engaging the gear 40, the winding key 37 may be rotated to energize the motor 33, and when a coin is deposited in the chute 12 the said coin will drop upon the arm 44 to cause the checking finger 48 to disengage the gear 40 for releasing the motor to set the same into operation. Due to the ratio of gearing provided the gear 40 rot-ates speedily and the momentum thereof prevents the finger 48 from reengagingthe same, reengagement taking place only upon decreased activity of the motor mechanism.

The operation of my thrift stimulating amusement bank will in the main be apparent from the above detailed thereof. It will be apparent that the dancing figure B is incapable of being set into motion except by the depositingof money in the bank receptacle, and that when a coin is so deposited the figure will be set into activity until decreased energization of the motor produces a checking of the activity thereof and a locking of the same against further operation. Thus for each performance a new deposit must be made and each deposit is attended With an amusement which creates an interest in saving.

VVhile I have shown my device in the preferred form, it will bo obvious that many changes and modifications may be made in the structure disclosed without departing from the spirit of the invention, defined in the following claims.

I claim: i

1. A toy savings bank comprising a savings receptacle, an amusement device carried thereby, a motor housed by the receptacle and connected to operate said device, mechanism for energizing said motor and a brake means for the motor normally set in braking condition and releasable by the depositing of a coin in the receptacle, said brake means and motor being inter-related so that the brake means when released is held out of braking action by the operation of the motor, and is self-resettable into braking condition when the motor is deenergized.

2. A toy savings bank comprising a savings receptacle, a dancing figure carried thereby, a spring motor including a gear description llO train housed by the receptacle and connected to operate the figure, mechanism for winding the motor, andV a brake means for said motor comprising an element no-rmally biased for engagement with the teeth of a gear of said gear train and releasable by depositing a coin in the receptacle, said element and gear being inter-related so; that the element when so released is held out of engagement with the gear by motion of the latterand is permitted to re-engage the gear upon decreased activity of the latter.

3. n a toy, an amusement device, a motor therefor, mechanism for energizing the motor, and a releasable brake means fo'r the motor normally set in rbrakfing condition, said brake means and motor being inter-related so that the brake means when released is held out of braking action by the operation of the motor, and is self-resettable into ,day of October, A. D. 1922 braking action when the motor is deenergized.

4. In a toy, an amusement motor including a gear train therefor, mechanism for winding the motor, and a brake means for the motor comprising a releasable lever normally biased for engagement with the teeth of a gear of said gear train, said lever and gear being inter-related so that the lever when so released is held out of engagement with said gear by momentum of the latter and is permitted to re-engage the gear upon decreased activity of the latter whereby the brake means is self-resettable after the 'operation of the amusement device.

Signed at New York city in the county of New York and State of New York this 18th Louis MARX.

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